>I've noticed that when it comes to comics, it seems wherever JMS goes>Fiona Avery follows shortly thereafter. Between the ASM annual, her RS>mini-series, and others, a great many jobs seem to be found for her.

Let me jump in here for a second....

Every writer tends to follow every other writer a bit as they first start off. The reason I was able to first write a Teen Titans Spotlight was that I knewthe guy who was the editor of the book; ditto for my other first comics. Yougo to people you know, usually friends. That's the gatekeeping process.

Guys do this all the time, whether it's the British mafia ofMoore/Morrison/Gaiman or others. Moore also mentored Gaiman, and brought himon to write the comics he was involved with, such as Miracleman. But nobodyevery mentions that, it's when the other person is a female that suddenly somepeople have a hard time with it.

Everybody goes through a learning curve when they enter a medium; Moore, me,Neil, Fi, the first few years are rocky. That's the nature of the craft.

Top Cow and I rely on her for the RS follow-ups because she knows my universevery well, and has learned to kind of write in my style, so there's a certainlevel of consistency there. She's doing the book in part because I asked herto do so, because I wanted someone there I could trust.

She's also done and doing a great deal of work that has nothing whatsoever todo with me. She wrote for Earth: Final Conflict, she created the No Honor bookwhich she is currently adapting as a series for television for Gale Ann Hurd(which again has no connection to me), she's just finished off two novels, haspublished stories in magazines that have nothing to do with me...she's doingjust fine on her own.